Topological materials have become the focus of intense research in recent years, since they
exhibit fundamentally new physical phenomena with potential applications for novel devices …

Majorana fermions (particles that are their own antiparticle) may or may not exist in nature as
elementary building blocks, but in condensed matter they can be constructed out of electron …

In the space of less than one decade, the search for Majorana quasiparticles in condensed
matter has become one of the hottest topics in physics. The aim of this review is to provide a …

Topological superconductors are novel classes of quantum condensed phases,
characterized by topologically nontrivial structures of Cooper pairing states. On the surfaces …

Topological quantum computation has emerged as one of the most exciting approaches to
constructing a fault-tolerant quantum computer. The proposal relies on the existence of …

After a recent series of rapid and exciting developments, the long search for the Majorana
fermion—the elusive quantum entity at the border between particles and antiparticles—has …

We show that a pair of overlapping Majorana bound states (MBSs) forming a partially
separated Andreev bound state (ps-ABS) represents a generic low-energy feature in spin …

We review recent theoretical work on two closely related issues: excitation of an isolated
quantum condensed matter system driven adiabatically across a continuous quantum phase …

We show that an ordinary semiconducting thin film with spin-orbit coupling can, under
appropriate circumstances, be in a quantum topologically ordered state supporting exotic …

Robust zero-bias transport anomalies in semiconducting nanowires with proximity-induced
superconductivity have been convincingly demonstrated in various experiments. While …